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Strategic Counsel

For the past forty years David Hahn has counseled hundreds of clients, helping each one to develop their unique brand and execute an effective publicity campaign.

Many clients have been bestselling and well-known authors over the years including President Jimmy Carter, Charlene Li, Harvey Mackay, Mark Victor Hansen, Jack Canfield, Nelson deMille, Jackie Collins, Richard Preston, Bill George, Dick De Vos, Ken Blanchard, Teresa Amabile, Herb Kelleher, John Catsimatidis, Anil Singhal, Marcus Buckingham, Ambassador Gianna Angelopoulos, Farooq Kathwari, and many others.

His publishing clients have included Harvard Business Review Press, Wiley, Portfolio Books, St. Martin’s Press, HarperCollins, Putnam Publishing Group, Zondervan Publishing, Thomas Nelson, Berrett Koehler and many others.

Former Managing Director of Media Connect (a book PR division of FINN Partners) David now concentrates on select nonfiction book PR campaigns offering strategic counsel as well as hands on media placement work and book event coordination.

David joined Media Connect (originally Planned TV Arts) in 1985 after working at The Putnam Publishing Group in the early 80's in their marketing department. He previously worked at the Ann Elmo Literary Agency and the Betsy Nolan Group. Media Connect has been part of FINN Partners since 1993.

An alumnus of Swarthmore College and New York University with a 1978 B.A. in English Literature from N.Y.U, David lives in Huntington Station, New York.